When I was a little girl, my father always told me that reading was fun because books were my friends! I have to say that today, books play a bit of a different role in my life. Whether the subject be fashion, art, literature or culture, the visual that paperback & coffee table books offer, lend inspiration in the most stale of times. Alberta Ferretti’s newest ad campaign features some vintage books thrown about in a study. Vintage books tell stories beyond the pages of text. They extend history and love of their past owners & readers. Paris has incessant amount of vintage and coffee table books that I wanted to bring home with me but there was a two baggage limit on the plane ride back to New York. Nonetheless, below are some images I snapped of vintage books that I left back in Paris.